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347: The American Revolution (Part 1)

The Rest Is History

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The Different Religious Dispensations of the American Colonies

People in Britain would not have seen Americans in all the same way. George Washington had never been to New England before he went to Boston State Command of the Continental Army. He saw these New Englanders as just this kind of weird, dirty rabble with the strange religion and very alien to him. But one thing we haven't yet talked about, Adam, which is massive, surely, is the great awakening. And that surely has a massive impact on life in the colonists, doesn't it? It does. The colonies were swept by this religious fervor, not evenly and certainly more in New England than elsewhere.

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